Learn about the different systems that govern your attention, perceptions, thoughts, emotions, memories, and behaviours!
The brain is perhaps the most sophisticated system in the universe, capable of keeping your body functioning and processing everything that you experience, remember, imagine, think about, and do, often with little conscious effort involved. The brain is not just one system that performs all these miraculous functions though – it consists of many dedicated systems coordinating in parallel with each other in an elegantly organized fashion.
Scott Squires is a Ph.D. candidate in his fourth year at the Centre for Neuroscience Studies at Queen’s University, working under the co-supervision of Dr. Jordan Poppenk and Dr. Roumen Milev. Using a combination of psychometric analysis, functional MRI, and transcranial magnetic stimulation, he studies the links between life stress, emotion, functional brain connectivity, and repetitive thinking (e.g., rumination, worry, reflection, etc.). The goal of his research is to establish a basic framework for defining different kinds of repetitive thought, understanding how they manifest in the brain, and how they are modulated with neurostimulation, which will have important implications for the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders like major depressive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and many others.
This presentation will also be streamed live via Zoom.
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AGE GROUP: | Teens | Seniors | New Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Interests & Lifelong Learning |
